Josh D. Luke, PhD, FACHE, is founder of the National Readmission Prevention Collaborative and the National Bundled Payment Collaborative. He is a national thought leader and international speaker on the topics of care coordination, population health management, readmission prevention, and development of integrated post-acute care networks. He is a former hospital CEO, health system vice president, and nursing home administrator. Regarded as a futurist on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and how it will shape the continuum of care, he has been described as an innovator, a forward thinker, and a strategist on teaching accountable care organizations, bundled-payment initiative programs, and hospital leaders how to position themselves for revenue growth in the transitional care and post-acute care sectors in a post-ACA model.

 

He currently serves as executive faculty at the University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy. In 2013, he was named vice president of post-acute services for Torrance Memorial Health System. In that role, he designed a population management strategy (Total Wellness Torrance), working with the ACO, Bundled Payment and IPA teams. Total Wellness Torrance and its Post Acute Network received the 2013 Excellence in Programming award from California Association of Health Facilities. He has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and has served as a Lean Mentor.